Ecology Terminology Crossword

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Across
  1. 3. The sphere that includes all the water areas.
  2. 6. Living.
  3. 7. Organisms that obtain energy strictly from plants.
  4. 8. All organisms that look similar and can interbreed to produce fertile offspring.
  5. 9. Dead organic matter and waste matter.
  6. 10. Carry ____: The largest population of a species that an ecosystem can support.
  7. 14. The number and variety of species in an ecosystem.
  8. 17. Ecological ____: the role that an organism plays in the ecosystem.
  9. 18. The relationships between all living and non-living things in a region.
  10. 19. Food _____: illustrates many producer-consumer relationships in an ecosystem.
  11. 25. Density ____ Factors: Ecosystem characteristics that affect a population regardless of its size or density.
  12. 26. Food ____: illustrates a single way that energy moves through an ecosystem.
  13. 28. Water turning into a gas to move into the atmosphere.
  14. 31. _____ Level: the position an organism occupies in a food chain.
  15. 36. Water turning into a gas from a plant’s leaves.
  16. 37. (Two Words)The development of widespread resistance in a population over time.
  17. 39. The ability of an ecosystem to support itself.
  18. 40. The sphere that includes all the rocks and land areas.
  19. 42. The build up of toxins and other dangerous materials in higher-level organisms in the food chain.
  20. 43. Water travelling along the ground as it moves to a larger body of water.
  21. 44. ____ Factors: A characteristic of the ecosystem that prevents an organism from reaching its biotic potential.
  22. 45. All members of the same species living in an area.
  23. 46. Members of a species joining a population.
Down
  1. 1. The process of burning fuels.
  2. 2. The build up of something within an organism.
  3. 4. Members of a species leaving a population.
  4. 5. A single living thing.
  5. 11. Organisms that obtain energy strictly from animals.
  6. 12. The sphere that includes all the gasses.
  7. 13. Water turning into a liquid in the atmosphere
  8. 15. Density ___ Factors: Ecosystem characteristics that affect a population because of its size and density.
  9. 16. (Two Words)The process of turning stored chemical energy into usable energy for an organism.
  10. 20. Water falling to the surface.
  11. 21. Organisms that obtain energy from eating dead animals.
  12. 22. Organisms that must eat other organisms to obtain energy.
  13. 23. Water travelling through the ground down to the water table.
  14. 24. Organisms that obtain energy from breaking down dead organisms and waste.
  15. 27. Non-living.
  16. 29. Organisms that make their own food from sunlight.
  17. 30. A chemical form of stored energy; a Sugar.
  18. 32. The sphere that includes all the areas where there are living things.
  19. 33. Organisms that obtain energy from plants and animals.
  20. 34. Many similar ecosystems.
  21. 35. The process of forming carbon-rich fuels inside the lithosphere.
  22. 38. All organisms that live in an area and interact with each other.
  23. 41. The region where a single organism lives within the biosphere.
  24. 45. The process of turning sunlight into stored chemical energy.